The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian TragedyOriginally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G. Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel of Fire was Knight's first venture in the field - his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare. |
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Page x
... appears to me inadequate precisely because these deeper meanings have not been exploited . The play's surface has been merely translated Parts of my esssy ' The Lear Universe ' constitute an expansion under changed focal length of ...
... appears to me inadequate precisely because these deeper meanings have not been exploited . The play's surface has been merely translated Parts of my esssy ' The Lear Universe ' constitute an expansion under changed focal length of ...
Page xiii
... appear in retrospect to have influenced my Shakespearian investigations I would list John Masefield's 1924 Romanes Lecture Shakespeare and Spiritual Life ; and also the pages on Macbeth in the chapter ' On the Ghosts in the Tragedies of ...
... appear in retrospect to have influenced my Shakespearian investigations I would list John Masefield's 1924 Romanes Lecture Shakespeare and Spiritual Life ; and also the pages on Macbeth in the chapter ' On the Ghosts in the Tragedies of ...
Page xvi
... appears to be their ' philosophy of life ' sometimes turns out to be only a felicitous but shameless lifting of a passage from almost any author , as those of Chapman from Erasmus . This , indeed , is a habit which Shake- speare shares ...
... appears to be their ' philosophy of life ' sometimes turns out to be only a felicitous but shameless lifting of a passage from almost any author , as those of Chapman from Erasmus . This , indeed , is a habit which Shake- speare shares ...
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Contents
On the Principles of Shakespeare Interpretation | xxi |
The Embassy of Death an Essay on Hamley | 15 |
The Pilosophy of Troilus and Cressida | 48 |
Measure for Measure and the Gospels | 77 |
The Othello Music | 107 |
Brutus and Macbeth | 134 |
Macbeth and the Metaphysic of Evil | 158 |
King Lear and the Comedy of the Grotesque | 179 |
The Pilgrimage of Hate an Essay on Timon of Athens | 233 |
Shakespeare and Tolstoy | 271 |
Symbolic Personification | 281 |
The Shakespearian Metaphysic | 289 |
Tolstoys Attack on Shakespeare 1934 | 304 |
Hamlet Reconsidered 1947 | 336 |
TWO NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HAMLET 1947 | 365 |
The Lear Universe | 199 |
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy George Wilson Knight Limited preview - 2001 |
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